Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Self-Portrait In Traveling Costume 48 x 37.5 cm. (18.9 x 14.8 in.) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Self-Portrait In Traveling Costume 48 x 37.5 cm. (18.9 x 14.8 in.) ...

Self-portrait of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1781–1782). Collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

The portrait, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is one of several that Vigée Le Brun painted of Madame du Barry. Its freshness is typical of the artist.

And Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, is one of my heroines…. Elisabeth adored her hair, took great care of her hair…. perhaps you remember the great Winterhalter portrait.

A Netflix series and a new movie explore the life of Elisabeth, the 19th-century Empress of Austria who had a tattoo, worked out daily and wanted more from life than just producing heirs.

Don’t let the title fool you. “Corsage,” Marie Kreutzer’s intriguingly revisionist — if dramatically inert — portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, isn’t remotely flowery, flouncy ...